Body mass index is a load of crap

I just did the BMI online and it says my score is 40 and anything over 30 is obese. What a load of bollocks. I am insulted to be labelled as obese. I may be a larger than life character but not obese. 
Does anyone else disagree with their BMI score?

Michael Bolton wrote:I just did the BMI online and it says my score is 40 and anything over 30 is obese. What a load of bollocks. I am insulted to be labelled as obese. I may be a larger than life character but not obese. 
Does anyone else disagree with their BMI score?

Post the link and i will let you know when I have completed the questionnaire/survey.

BMI is a load of crap, all it does is say how heavy you should be for height

I am normal, on the weight side anyway.

22.5

BoltonTillIDie wrote:BMI is a load of crap, all it does is say how heavy you should be for height

I agree but at least it makes me feel good within myself. ( Whatever that is supposed to mean.)

It really is a load of crap. Despite being a very rough measure that doesn't take account of muscle mass, it's widely used in the medical profession. I'm muscly and have a body fat content (according to the fancy scales my missus bought) of between 18 and 22 but am borderline obese when weighed at the docs. Basically it's height/weight. Some of the bodybuilders I know haven't an ounce of fat on them but they are clinically obese.

wanderlust wrote:I'm muscly and have a body fat content of between 18 and 22

No one likes a show off.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

wanderlust wrote:I'm muscly and have a body fat content of between 18 and 22

No one likes a show off.

Yeah they do. Especially a muscly one.

Wanderlust - yes that is me too - I am not fat at all but this makes out I am morbidly obese. I am in cracking shape, it's just wrong to class people as obese when they are not.

It's no wonder the country's diet mad. I think the government do more harm than good with their daft statistics and charts.

What's wrong is using a height/weight calculation to measure fat - it doesn't - and then implying all this other shit on that basis and using emotive terminology to describe it.
It takes no account of body type (mesomorph, ectomorph, endomorph), muscle content, artificial limbs, amputees, wearing heavy clothes at the doctors etc. and yet they treat it like "real science."
It would be a lot cheaper and quicker (and probably more accurate) to look at a patient and go "You're a fat bastard" or "You're a skinny f*****" - save the taxpayer millions.

That sounds a great idea...

29.8 here which means I'm not an obese fat lump :-)

Although it still means im a fat lump

I like the suggestion that going from Spar to Tesco is a step down in class.

I've just posted that in the wrong thread

This new layout has fucked me up.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:I've just posted that in the wrong thread

This new layout has fucked me up.

What is this new layout bollocks? Site looks exactly the same to me.

my bmi is 28.8 which is overweight crap i'm 6-2 exactly 16 st which is 224 pounds and built like a young George Foreman.

Angry, I am 6'3 and 23 stone which basically means I could kick your arse.